The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-03-30
No. Z.

the county report that farm work
is fully two weeks further advanced
than usual. The good weather OF
the past month has been taken ad-
vantage of-Charlotte Observer.
The track on little over four
miles of the Thomasville & Silver
Valley road has been laid The en-
gine and part of the cars are already
on the road and the work is being
rapidly pushed forward. High Point
Enterprise.
The pea crop has been given a
serious set back by the cold snap
and in many places on light land
has been killed outright, but the
truckers are hopeful yet of some
thing like a half crop.-Neaoberne
Journal.
The Lindley Brothers are our
authority for saying that the peach
blooms are not all dead. In low places
from half to two-thirds are killed,
but upon the high land they are yet
uninjured. This after careful in
vestigation.-Gr Greensboro Ne,os.
Col. J. NJ Ray yesterday sold
to Col. Ross, of Cincinnati, 80 acres
Of land located on the French Broad
North Of Smiths bridge, at 5000 per
acre. The object of Col. Ross is to
erect number of cottage residences.
-AsheuHle Citizen.
We are pleased to learn from
some Of our Madison friends that
the farmers Of that county will give
more attention to bread stuffs. vege-
tables and home supplies generally
this year, and plant less tobacco but
cultivate it more thoroughly, than
sheviUe Citizen.
The Executive committee of
the State Fair held meeting Sat-
urday and named October the 18th
the day for opening the Fair. 1t
will continue four days. Mr.. John
Nichols will continue as Secretary,
his Congressional term not begin
ming until December.--Raleigh Chron-
icle
Mr. Frank Swain has discovered
mica vein on his place, in David
son county, near Clemmonsville,
which indicates an abundant deposit.
Mr.. Swain will correspondent with
parties concerning his find, and if
inducements are offered will work
the same Winston Republican.
The election held in Ritter's
township on the 18th inst, to sub
scribe $1,000 to the capital stock of
the Carthage railroad, resulted in a
majority favoring the subscription.
AS we have before stated, the subject
is to extend the railroad to Parke-
wood, N. c., which is situated in
Ritter's township.-Carthoge Blade.
The best indication of a good crop
this year, or rather a reckoning,
favorable to the farmer next fall,
which means good crop, because
the laborer is paid for his time, is
the fact that less fertilizers have
been sold here this season than for
many years past.-'Sahsbury Watch
man.
For week ending Saturday
March 10Th, the combined sales of
leaf tobacco at the warehouses amount
ed to 170,036 pounds.
Smoking tobacco shipped: 103,-
sci pounds, worth s38,411, 900.
Cigarettes: $4,000, worth s17,-
727,8O.
Snuff: 1900 pounds.-Durham
Plant.
A gentleman who lives in the
city told us the other day that he
had 300 bushels of corn Of his own
raising to sell. He works a farm
near the city, and says he raised
1900 bushels Of corn last year, but
made only two or three bales of
cotton. He is one of the prosper
Gus farmers and business men of
this section.-During the past month
measles have prevailed throughout
this section of the State more extern
sively than ever before know, and
they have proved fatal in many
cases. In the country they have
been particularly bad. A friend
tells us that in radius of two miles
in Paw Creek township there were
over 100 cases last week.-Charlotte